Remember x2vnc and win2vnc? What can I use now?
Basically title. I want to control a bare metal debian machine on a separate monitor (that always has this debian machine) from my windows gaming machine.
Edit: it's called Synergy and the apt package is called deskflow. I'll try it later and see if I can make it work.
Personally, I use x2go to graphically access my servers remotely. It redirects X protocol over ssh and it also short circuits many of the X round trips making it much more responsive than bare X-windows. It also supports sound, remote printing, and file transfers.
You're not giving specifics, but both KDE and Gnome have their own RDP solutions built-in.
If using another DE, just check for solutions as there are many generic ones. I'd generally be looking for RDP solutions over CNC because of Wayland compatibility.aybe NoMachine is interesting to you.
If you want to forward just single windows, look into XWayland and SSH forwarding X apps.
If you're strictly speaking about console access, then SSH.
I want to sit at my windows machine with it's three monitors and move my mouse to a fourth monitor of a Linux machine. x2vnc was great for controlling multiple *nix boxes and win2vnc did exactly what I want to do now but it hasn't been updated for 5 years.
I don't know if it's still relevant, but I used to use Synergy to do this.
Right. From what I'm reading, those tools were simply VNC clients, so whichever method you choose above should work to serve the session, and you just need to match the protocol for your windows client. Tons of great RDP clients out there for the windows side.
There's also deskhop which is essentially a pure hardware solution similar to Synergy (helpful when you cannot install software on a machine or if they are on different networks). You can build your own or purchase parts/pre-built deskhops from elecrow.